/lit/ - Literature

>>10950513
what the fuck should I do? I have no real goals or dreams and "the real world" just feels foreign and absurd. I've wasted so much time...

>>10943188
Used the wrong image m8
I'm 30 this year

>>10723953
>mom, dad and sister are atheists who watch TV all day
>grandparents are half-assed cultural catholics
>I'm the only TRAD Catholic in my household so I can't do the liturgy of the hours because people are always home

NO ONE EVER WANTS TO GO TO THE CATHEDRAL TO ME REEEEEEEEEE DAD LAUGHED AT THE VIRGIN MARY PICTURE ON MY WALL

>>10705517
>masters at top 10
>doing phd at 300s
I'm in my 3rd year and still get depressed about this, and we have a guy who WILLINGLY came here from Yale undergrad i shit you not

At least I was rejected from 8 colleges before ending up in this shit of a school. I don't know his excuse

>>10699602
>That was 5 years ago...

what the fuck?
wasn't it December last week?

>>10610009
Why would God make the Good so hard to attain? Why do most people fail? 2000 years on and our society is still struggling against the same problems that Plato found solutions to? Is Plato wrong?

The most commonly used noun in the history of all literature is the word "time." And why is that?

>>10079657
>tfw Christianity has become the exclusive pervue of the intellectual elite

>>10012723

>2009
>almost a decade ago

>it's almost time for the nobel to be given out again

What the hell, it feels like it was only yesterday that Dylan got it

I had all that and then I lost it. At least you don't know what you're missing.

>>9803584
I want to know what has happened and is happening around the world. Nothing else to it. The less book is detached from this the less I am interested in it.

>>9612112
Shit

>already trying to learn two languages
>also want to learn Latin so I can read Caesar, Terrance, Plautus, and Cicero
>but want to learn Koine for Herodotus, Aristophanes, and Aeschylus

>>9478991
my dude! little did i know the first season does not include the episode where columbo stops the IRA shipment (that was season 7). probably my favs.

>>9478985
I'm only on Livy. Reading a lot of other stuff, trying to write and can't quit /k/ or /lit/. Plus addicted to dissecting films. Those Roman histories are mostly for inspiration, anyway. It's all the work of a lifetime.

>tfw graduated and employed so summer is just like regular wageslavery but it's fucking hot

>Just want to write a good shitpost
>End of reading the entirety of War and Peace

What has reading taught you?

It taught me that reading is a big waste of time.

>>9317043

>250 word essay due tomorrow
>still browsing /lit/

>>9214245
Are you saying reading the canon has made me to intelligent to interact with anyone?

>250 word essay due tomorrow
>still trying to determine 'what is true'

>250 word essay due tomorrow
>still browsing /lit/